Reel-to-reel appeal

By David A. MaurerAlbemarle County filmmaker Jamie Howard drew on the crisp storytelling skills he developed while making commercials in his career with a New York ad agency and learning how to make each film moment matter.
With his fields too wet to work, George W. Perry decided to go fishing.
The Georgia farmer headed for nearby Montgomery Lake with his fishing buddy, Jack Page. It was just past noon when “all at once the water splashed everywhere.”

That’s how Perry later described the strike that made history. It was June 2, 1932, and, after a lot more splashing and line tugging, what proved to be the world-record largemouth bass was flopping on the bottom of the homemade boat.

The fishermen took the trophy catch to the general store in Helena, Ga., where the owner, a notary public, weighed and measured it. The fish that had been fooled by a Creek Chub Fintail Shiner lure weighed a staggering 22 pounds, 4 ounces, and was 32½ inches long and 28½-inches in girth.

A store customer told Perry about a bass-fishing contest Field and Stream magazine was running that had a $75 prize, as well as a new rod, reel and shotgun, going to the winner.

Before entering the fish in the contest, the farmer wisely had it weighed and measured again on a certified scale at the nearby post office.

Perry’s world-record lunker is widely credited for launching what has become a multi-billion dollar bass-fishing industry in the United States. Now, thanks to Albemarle County filmmaker Jamie Howard, one of the most sought-after freshwater game fish in the country has made it to the big screen…

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Story on The Final Journey

ThisIsFly.com interview with Jamie Howard about Location X.
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FILM FESTIVALS

In Search of a Rising Tide won the Distinguished Film Award (Best in Show) at the 2007 Great Falls Fly Fishing Film Festival. The festival included “In Search of a Rising Tide,” “Chasing Silver,” “Running Down the Man,” “Digger Bamboo Rod Builder” and a vintage Lee Wulff film among others.In Search of a Rising Tide is an official selection of the 2004 Jackson Hole Film Festival and is an official selection of the 2005 Bahamas International Film Festival.

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Location X featured on Fly Fisherman’s website.Note: We received quite a bit of speculation about the location of Location X and were forwarded educated guesses from fishing forums. While we cannot comment, we just hope that the sport and the Earth’s other great fisheries benefit from the attention.

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A few of the publications that have featured HowardFilms projects.

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In Search of a Rising Tide

review by David Dalu

I HAVE A CONFESSION to make.  Like many others before me, I’ve come to love the Bahamas — the water, the isolation, the unhurried character of the people.  The opportunity to spend several weeks each spring exploring the flats on my own skiff in the company of friends, far from any lodge or guide, only heightens this prejudice.

It was with high hopes, then, that I viewed Jamie Howard’s In Search of a Rising Tide, a short film promising “a journey deep into the bights of Andros … providing a glimpse into [its] rare bonefish culture.”  The film follows two guides, Andy Smith and Charlie Neymour, as they fish deeper flats of Andros in search of a fish larger than the local “record,” a 16-pound, 8-ounce beast caught on a Nasty Charlie — a fly put into the history books by the local grandfather of fishing, Charlie Smith, and the late Bob Nauheim.

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